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GARDAI have taken the unusual step of deciding to exhume the remains of a deceased Sixmilebridge banqueting manager, who died on February 10, 1984, as part of its cold case investigation into the circumstances surrounding his death. Work on the exhumation of Patrick Nugent’s remains is due to start early on Tuesday morning with the help of a team of forensic experts. In a statement issued to the Clare Champion, the family’s solicitor Kevin Winters of KRW LAW Human Rights lawyers confirmed family members have engaged with Gardai on both the sensitive logistics of the exhumation and its likely outworkings. “A key area will be the tests undertaken on bones to see if those results might alter hitherto settled narratives on the case. We hope those anthropological findings will provide new investigative leads for Gardai in all their follow up inquiries. In many ways, we hope this historic investigative milestone will pave the way for a renewed investigative …
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